Ol Roy dog food - Page 7

I would rather feed the fish and not just the oil. I spend a bit more than $60.00 a month tho. And I don't have the freezer space, but if I'm eating deer they are eating deer.

After reading up so much on raw I feel that it may be the best way to go.  I have notice that when you tell some people this they look at you crazy like your raising Cujo by feeding your dog raw meat.

I live in Arizona and need to start looking around and asking how much stuff costs and what all I need.  I have a deep freezer which should work well for any extra space needed.

Moons & SP...I have heard both ways.  I have heard that you shouldn't mix raw & kibble together in the same meal but it is ok to feed like kibble in the morning and then raw for dinner.  Then some say as Moon said, they mix both raw and kibble in the same meal.

$60/month isn't bad at all for 4 dogs.  So for 1 it should be a bargain.  I always thought feeding raw would be expensive.

I only feed three, I've feed dogs this way my whole life. I honestly thing separate or together makes little difference, I just try to keep a consistancy to how I feed.

Renee, where do you get your meat?

Ace,

You are right, with the raw you sometimes get bacteria. A member had a dog get sick from mixing raw with kibble so I decided to soak the kibble, keeping it in frig or a cool place and when it softens it is okay to mix.

Hopefully he will be along to explain it better.



SP

what do you mean by "soaking" it?

In water to soften it.

The reason is raw and kibble digest at different rates and the raw can set in the stomach while the kibble is digesting and allow the bacteria to grow.

Check this tomorrow and I am sure Mudwick will post and tell you exactly what happened.

SP

Sam,

Try this article.

http://www.healinghope.net/downloads/canine_raw_food_diet_basics.pdf

My dogs coats and overall appearance and energy have improved, since I went to feeding some raw.  Now the trick is switching to all raw.

Sounds like you're doing fine, Troy. It's actually counter-productive to add kibble to an otherwise raw meat and bone diet. I know it's really hard to work up the nerve to go against all the commercial brainwashing we've watched over a lifetime about how kibble is nutritionally complete and all that yap, but really, commercial food is about 99% garbage and manufacturers should have stopped at the meat. The dogs need none of the other stuff. Once a dog owner just STOPS with the kibble, going full-bore raw, and sees how the dogs do, they rarely if ever go back. I know a few people have gone psycho with adding a boat-load of junk to the raw meat diet and experienced major digestive issues, but that was the additives, not the meat, causing the troubles. Just go cold turkey. It saves a bundle at the vet on tooth cleaning, on coat/skin problems, etc etc etc. and so is nowhere near as expensive as one thinks when first looking at it.

People should just stop the kibble. You can always start up again in a few weeks if your dogs seem to be suffering, but that ain't gonna happen. And nobody gets any permanent damage from a few weeks' trial period unless they're eating something toxic.